“Do you think that was really intended for her? The arrow?” Even as I asked it, I knew the answer. I just wanted to rail against it. Nyaxia had always struck me as so lonely. I didn’t want to think that her one love had been tainted by this hidden betrayal. “Some believe that the gods’ power is communal,” Asar said. “Perhaps they were afraid that the addition of a thirteenth major god would dilute their strength. Or maybe they were just threatened by her because she wouldn’t do what she was told. She was a runaway, after all.”
